12 Free @font-face Icon Sets

A collection of free web font icon sets used for replacing icon images as well as CSS sprite through CSS3 @font-face rule.

12 Free @font-face Icon Sets

Thanks to CSS3 @font-face rule we were able to render any web fonts within web pages. This also means that we can include icons into web pages through icon web fonts instead of using images or CSS sprite. Moreover, it’s much easier to manage, plus icon web fonts being scalable and able to style using CSS properties like font-size, color, text-shadow, and etc.

In this post I have compiled a list of 15 free but useful @font-face Icon sets that might integrated into your web pages.

Heydings Icons

by Heydon Pickering

Heydings Icons is a collection of 60 glyphs specifically intended for the classification of textual cues such as hyperlinks, navigation and buttons.